A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
O. HENRYThere is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
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It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.
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It ain’t the roads we take; it’s what’s inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
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Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
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East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.
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Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
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There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth’s burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.
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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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No friendship is an accident.
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This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
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O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
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All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.
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By rights you’re a king. If I was you, I’d call for a new deal.
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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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